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This is Ori! My first fully human custom! I did do the Space Crab last year that had a human face but this is the first full body human I've done. It has really been something! I don't want to send her of to her owner hahaha!

I've been working on her for about a week, even though I started roughly two weeks ago. I had a few things to finish in between. She was a "Bode Broad" by Mark Bode originally and I have seen quite a few of these Bode Broads popping up around IG. To be honest I wasn't a big fan of the original toy. Not until I had her in the post and got to hold her in my hands and have a good look at her.

This toy is so well sculpted and something you can't appreciate in a photo. Every curve in her body is perfect and she is so well weighted. Even though she was well sculpted there were many bits that wouldn't work with the style I wanted to go for. I had a long an hard job in front of me. Cutting her drape off was the hardest part! I decided to keep it at first but as I went along it was just getting in the way. So I brought out my dremel and started hacking away at it. At this point there was no turning back and I just had to go with it. Little did I know of the massive lump of resin that was sitting in her feet. I nearly killed myself getting that out but I won in the end. After this I had to re-sculpt her legs which took me an age. If there is one thing I've learnt over the past year, it is that nothing will get in my way of achieving what I want when it comes to customizing.

Her face was the most important thing to me. I wanted her to look like one of my Sci-Fi Pinup girls, so I had to restructure her face. Getting the eyes in there was not easy and this is when I wish I had more than one set of hands. After allot of struggling and re-positioning I managed to secure them in one place. But before I even started sculpting, I had to find a way to make her visor.... took me a while to figure that one out. After allot of thinking I had a light-bulb moment! It was a bit of a gamble to be fair, but worked out! I found a place online that did see through Christmas tree baubles in all sorts of colours and since I needed the visor to have a slight bend in it, it seemed like the perfect option. I ordered two different sizes as I didn't know which one would be the right size. Funny enough the smaller one had the exact same bend as her face. WIN! I also redid her nose and added those big ears. Don't even get me started on the ears.....

Do you know how hard it is to sculpt ears? No?! I do! LOL! :D It is hard. And what is even harder is to get them somewhat symmetrical. Symmetry is the bane of my life. I am addicted to it! To sum it all up this have been majorly challenging but an absolute blast! I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time so when I got asked for a Bode Broad commission I jumped at the opportunity! I really want to design my very own Pinup Vinyl Toy one day! That would be a dream come true! I've got so many ideas and a much better understanding of it now.

What an awesome piece of vinyl!!! Thank you for letting me work on this pure piece of beauty Josh!

The second painting in line for my limited edition print run is finished. This is "Geo Fox 22" and here's the time-lapse for her as well.

I am really pushing myself in all artistic fields at the moment. I am determined to become a better artist this year and to master the fields I am currently in. I still want to learn to paint traditionally but I feel that I need more time to do this, time that I don't have at the moment. I want to get in to classic painting and I want to mix these techniques with what I've learnt from digital painting. However as for now, I have to settle with digital.

When I really want to do something, but don't find the time to, I tend to stop drawing completely. So what I've decided is to try to keep on top of everything in the best way I can. Just because I can't do classic painting at the moment doesn't mean that I have to stop evolving in other aspects, like the human form etc. So this is my focus now. To master the human form. After Toy Con UK I want to start taking life-drawing classes. I don't know where or how but I'm sure they'll be around somewhere. And by doing this I hope to become a better artist.

I will stick to my cartoony style, but that doesn't mean that I don't need to practice real anatomy. So I am really looking forward to this year to come. Weather I will succeed or not only time will tell. But I really do hope so, and I will work hard to make it so.

I hope you find my time-lapses interesting and that you might actually learn something from them. I find them great for myself in many ways. When you create and draw you tend to loose yourself, or I do at least. So it is great learning for me to go back and watch my own work. I learn an awful lot about myself as an artist and I can see where I should have stopped and what I should do differently the next time. I've especially learnt that I have a tendency to over work things, nit pick if you like. And I now know when it is time to stop and when the picture is finished. So I highly recommend that you record yourself whilst painting as you will learn so much. But don't forget to watch other artists work too, you will pick up so much knowledge and learn to apply many new techniques this way.

I use Debut Video Capture Software for my time-lapse which is free to use if in a non-commercial way. You can download it HERE , it is very reliable and you can get some really high quality videos with it.

It's been quite some time since I made a Time-lapse. So I thought it was about time I did a new one, and this pic was perfect for it!

Head on over to Vimeo and watch it in HD :D

I wanted to achieve a some-what retro look but with obvious modern touches. Since Sci-Fi's always been so dear to me and pop-culture as well I love to mix the different eras and they seem to work so well together.

"Bubble Cloud" is the first painting in a series of three that I am bringing to ToyCon UK in April. I'm very excited to show you the rest of them and I hope you enjoy the Time-Lapse. I'll try to make more this year :D

Face close-up. She's so cute >.<

Bunny Close-up! <3

Whilst I was waiting for "Bubble Cloud" to render and upload I managed to draw out the next on in line, so I thought I'd share her as well.

Whilst I've been waiting for various parts for the Space Crab I'm currently working on I needed a side project not to go insane. So I decided to work on this drawing a did a while back. I meant to paint her with inks and water colours but realized somewhere along the line that I probably wouldn't have time for that any time soon. And since I've been away from anything digital for a very long time, it came as a welcome break to sit down in Illustrator and Photoshop and sort of go back to my old ways.

I can't say that I was rusty at all and to be honest I think stepping away from digital art and working hard on my traditional art have made me a better artist digitally believe it or not. I've learnt an awful lot about colours and blending trough painting and it's definitely made a difference in me as a whole.

I don't know what to do with her. Maybe a print, I don't know. I don't even know if people are interested or not. Would you be if I made a print out of it? I would love to know.

Some details...

The last wheels for my Space Crab arrived today so I will move on to that next. After that I have a commission to complete. And then....... I'm going to try something new..... in time for Christmas..... Stay tuned!

So the Queen of Candy Cove is more or less completed. I am waiting for one of her accessories to come through the post before I can show her to you in all her glory however. This is my first custom vinyl toy that I am completely and utterly stoked about. I've used so many new things creating her and it's just made me more addicted to customizing vinyl toys. I have way to many in my possession at the moment, and I can't wait to work on all of them. Anyway, here's some W.I.P. pictures whilst waiting for the rest :D